Carolina QuotesMan … feels lost without the direction-finder provide by progress.
Richard M. Weaver Carolinian
Source
“Ultimate Terms in Contemporary Rhetoric,” p. 93.
- work
- Language is Sermonic (1970)
- year
- 1970
- locator
- p. 93
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Modern publication wishes to minimize discussion. … Phrases … are carefully chosen not to stimulate reflection, but to evoke stock responses of approbation or disapprobation. Headlines and advertising teem with them, and we seem to approach a point at which failure to make the stock response is regarded as faintly treasonable.
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